CSS
- Maximum benefits

CSS - Maximum benefits

What is CSS?

CSS is a simple file which controls the visual appearance of a
Web page without compromising its structure. Using CSS we can control
our font size, font color, link color and many other attributes
on our web page. This will make our HTML code much more readable
and the page size will be reduced.

Why to use it and how to use it properly

If you don’t use CSS on your web pages and you have many
tables and content on them, chances are that your HTML file size
will be quite big. Fact is that we live in a busy world, and people
are not will to wait more than 5 seconds web page to load.

From the other side some web developers implement the CSS on wrong
way. They write their CSS in HTML code of the page, like this:

What is wrong with this technique? Well, imagine that you have
site with more than 50 pages. One day, you decide that you want
to change font color and colors of the links on your site. You will
have to edit ALL the pages on your site, and do to that you will
need time, because you place your CSS in your web page.

Better way is to save your visual attributes in separate, external
CSS file, and to link that file with your page like this:

Using this technique, you can change the look of your site within
minutes, regardless of the number of pages, because your visual
attributes are saved in ONE external CSS file. Edit that file, and
you are done.

Benefits

Which are the benefits of using CSS? List is quite long and I will
list here only the most important.

Your web page will load faster

Web page will become more search engine friendly

You can change you site appearance within minutes

You can write separate CSS file for handheld devices which
will be called up instead of the regular CSS file

You can forget about creating printer friendly version of your
site using separate CSS file when user chooses to print the web
page.

will help us to reduce file size, but that is not the only benefit.
Using CSS word product in this example will be moved more close
on the top of the document. Search engine will pick up more content
and less code.

Imagine that you have 3 columns table on your page. When you see
the code, you will notice that first come code for your table, and
after that it come your content. Positioning your 3 columns using
CSS instead of standard inline elements:

Again your code is much more clear, and your content is moved on
the top of your document, making your HTML page search engine friendly,
and reducing your file size.

Content is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization,
and you will benefit with removing the unnecessary code in your
HTML and create search engine friendly web page.

Validate it

Browser war is far behind us. Reality is that most of the people
today use Internet Explorer, but you should try to be on safe side
and ensure that your CSS code is valid. Not all browsers interpret
the CSS on same way. You can validate your CSS here: